Awareness is another name for you

[Guest guest]

Sometimes we see people debating the language and

methodology of Sri Ramana's teaching. The question is

often raised, "What is the purest form of Bhagavan's

teaching"?

 

The answer is simple. That form of the teaching is the

purest that brings you to Self-Realization.

 

Sri Ramana's teaching is very straight forward and it

is all an open secret for everyone to see.

 

Sri Ramana always emphasized that our nature was that

of pure consciousness or unbroken awareness that

continues regardless of what mental state the mind is

in (sleep, dreaming, waking). If we deeply understand

this, we have understood the essence of the teaching.

 

All of these terms, self-attention, self-awareness,

self-remembrance refer to the same process of the

subject turning within to it self, the subject.

Self-inquiry focuses the mind on its source and the

result is clarity of awareness. Awareness by its very

nature is always aware of itself but it is not an

object to itself.

 

Sri Ramana used to say that there are not two selves

where one self is aware of the second self. Similarly

there are not two awareness's. However, through the

duality and agency of the perceptual mind, we can say

that awareness being aware of itself is a refined and

a subtle form of atma vichara. Ultimately, even this

duality being that of the mind (that any method

necessarily presumes) vanishes as One Awareness shines

forth as the Self that is the Heart that the ancients

termed Sat-Chit-Ananda. Existence-Consciousness-Bliss.

One whole mass without divisions.

 

Once Sri Ramana said the whole truth is contained in

"Be Still".

 

So if one is self-aware and still, one has grasped the

method.

 

Love to all

Harsha

 

 

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